skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not as close to Nokia as you, so can you explain where Nokia lost the script on smart phones?

I ask because I pre-ordered a 920 off-contract on the basis of a number of features unavailable anywhere else -

- Offline maps, search and navigation

- PureView/OSI camera

- Being able to use the phone wearing gloves

- Wireless charging

There are a number of other reasons I chose to pre-order the 920 without knowing what it'll cost. UEFI. Knowing that the phone won't come with some crazy manufacturer's interpretation of a UI skin. Knowing that no manufacturer or network operator will include bloatware that can't be uninstalled without rooting the phone, or being forced to use iTunes.

Would love to know if I made a mistake, and why.
Control iOS simulator using Clojure and Nu Lisp
U.S. Postal Service To Launch Experimental Same-Day Delivery Service In November
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> My reply had a snide tone, however that was completely intentional

You are acting like the poster child for why we try and keep articles like this off of HN.
I asked about this on twitter recently but no responses.

Can anyone list their absolute favourite open source client side web based todo lists? It seems like there would be a lot as its everyones favourite personal project (I do have my own). however most seem to be extremely basic.

I am mostly judging by UX features and polish, something that works really well webbased + tablet + mobile would be a plus.

If anyone is interested in why, I am an author of pouchdb, a javascript library that aims to make syncing offline apps incredibly easy, I plan to take a standalone todo app and modify it to sync the data to see how easy it is / make a tutorial.
Absolutely does not work on Facebook. Or, I can't figure it out.

Every time I run Facebook ads I target them to Raleigh, NC, USA only. Almost all the resulting clicks are foreign (according to the IPs I see in my analytics).

YMMV
The article says the deal between the US and the USSR was that the missiles would be removed from Cuba and the US promised not to invade.

In fact, there was also a private deal for a matching US missile withdrawal that was not announced at the time. From wiki:

"Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet ... in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba. Secretly, the US agreed that it would dismantle all US-built Jupiter IRBMs deployed in Turkey and Italy."
Mood swings of a guy guy stable enough to hold USA in check for 50 years, haha. And anyway what's the use for tactical nuclear weapons for an island country only about 1000 miles big? Nuke Miami?

The whole story does not make sense to me.
randomdata, the invisible hand doesn't seem to have developed such fine-motor control yet, and the media market has the special luxury of manipulating demand to suit its product ("hmm, would addressing real issues, encouraging honest dialog, and fostering fulfillment of folks's true potential ... sell as much popcorn? better not risk it...")
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You don't have a business until you hire your first employee. Until then, you're just a dude trying to make a living.
In university now, I've wanted this for a long time. It would be fantastic to have a group of friends in the same classes who each have assigned roles for capturing different parts of the lectures to help each other learn. Someone to draw the diagrams, someone to record the audio and set tags/timestamps with the notes, and others to transcribe and condense the lecture notes into notebooks, study guides, cheat sheets, and flash cards. I'm really curious if this platform can make a difference in education.

In higher education, collaboration of LaTeX writing can save a whole lot of time, which is why I was really excited when sharelatex.com came around.
http://news.yahoo.com/spacexs-elon-musk-bemoans-opposition-c... talks a bit about it some.

SpaceX is dramatically lowering the cost of space launch. They are eating the lunch of dinosaur space companies who are only too happy to apply FUD that SpaceX is being "too cheap." There's a lot of money on the table being consumed by people who just have to keep on doing what they are doing and don't like competition.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2667815

http://hntrades.com/

Interestingly it has been taken down by its developer Joshua Stein after he was banned from Hacker News - https://jcs.org/projects/
My assumption is these bot accounts are used for selling Likes/Follows on Facebook, and they Like everything in sight so that the paid Likes blend in.

That said, its unbelievably frustrating if you are trying to run Facebook ads. Nothing against foreigners, but I have to pay for every Like/click, and I'm sure they don't want to buy the local service I'm selling (and are clearly not reading the ad).

Its the ad exchange's job to curtail this sort of thing, and Facebook does a very poor job of it compared to e.g., Google. I hope they get it under control.
There should be a name for these types of articles: Pigeonhole Driven Discussion.
I was under the impression that a byte is defined as the smallest unit of addressable memory; in the case of DCPU that would be a 16-bit byte.
In general, function calls cannot be inlined by the Python compiler because (almost) any function name may be re-bound to a different object at run time.

A very smart compiler could probably attempt to prove that no such modification can occur at run time throughout the whole program; but this is much harder than simply deciding whether inlining a given call is worth it or not.
Everyone in the industry who was paying attention knew that the satellite was having problems on Tuesday. Anyone who wanted to know about it did.

The satellite burned up when it burned up. It was very probable that it was going to have a short life, but no one really knew how short until re-entry was imminent.
The market for mobile Windows 8 is embryonic, and will remain so for longer than is relevant to a Nokia turnaround. Windows 8 is for high-spec phones, and will take several years to move down-market. It isn't the high-end phones that drive a million Android activations per day. Windows 8 tablets are even less able to turn Nokia around. The game therefore has already been won or lost.

This was foreseeable. Windows CE Core was never competitive with Linux. Killing Meego looks like a career-management move. It could have been a bridge, at the cost of casting some doubt on Windows as a strategy.

Nokia could still buy Jolla, but that would be a hell of a climbdown.
Hey, thanks for commenting! Dropbox does have a sort of version control but it only keeps files for about a month (and even then you wouldn't want to rely on it if you definitely wanted the files back!). And even if all the revisions of the files you want are still in Dropbox's memory you'd still have to figure out which which you needed for every file (potentially a problem in a folder with hundreds or thousands of files!).

AWS going down definitely isn't the only reason you might lose data from Dropbox, in fact it's probably one of the least likely. Far more likely is accidental deletion (delete it on one computer and Dropbox will delete it on all your computers!) or file corruption (which you might not notice for months). Even so tidy.io stores a copy of every file on Glacier which is a separate system to the S3 service that Dropbox uses
Nope. It's one of those little towns in western Pennsylvania where there are no jobs and the young people move away as soon as they can. By now the average age must be over 60. There must be about 50 people living there, though there were thousands a few generations ago when it was an oil town. In theory there are ambulances that cover the county, but there's really no point in waiting 40 minutes for the ambulance to get there so you can wait another 40 minutes as they drive back.

Anyway, he probably could have gotten a neighbor to drive him. Not sure why he didn't. Most likely the neighbors were drunk, since once hunting season is over that's what passes for entertainment. Not that they don't get drunk while they're hunting. Probably the only thing worse than driving yourself to the hospital during a heart attack is having your drunk neighbor crash the car in which you're having a heart attack.

The funny part of the story is he got someone to call ahead so the hospital was expecting him. He gets to the emergency room and the ER nurse (there's only one) says "Have a seat. We have an emergency case coming in any minute." He sits down wondering what kind of shape you have to be in to bump a heart attack patient. But he figured after 40 minutes he was still alive, so it probably wasn't going to kill him. He's kind of a stoic guy, too, so he didn't protest. Just sat down.

Five minutes later the nurse runs back into the waiting room with wide eyes, points at him and says "It's you!"
"No ordinary FTP client can do that."

Use ncftp or lftp. Problem solved.

But there never was a problem. Those ftp client have been around since the mid-1990's. He created a "problem" in order to play with a favorite software: git. This is typical behavior. git is clearly among the softwares, systems (Linux?) and devices (iPhone?) that have "fanboys".

So we can be sure we'll be hearing more about git. More fabricated "problems" to solve. Fanboys are blinded to all of history and all else besides their chosen infatuation.

Meanwhile, no matter how wonderful git is, I still have to install multiple versioning systems (cvs, svn, hg and git, at the bare minimum), because programmers can't agree on just one. Now _that_ is a problem.
Because it's more effective not to (in my experience anyway). Instead use the same numbers and make it look like a great deal. So rather than.

"Your bill is $10k, pay after Dec 15 and you get fined an additional $5k"

say

"Pay by Dec 15 and get our discount rate of $10k, otherwise get our standard rate of $15k"

Numbers are the same. Very different reaction from people.

Discounts are something people want. Having time-limited discounts is a classic sales technique. People don't want to lose out.

Some departments are required to take discounts, but encouraged to fight late fees.

Fines are annoying, but the effectively give you a structure and excuse for doing the bad thing.

There is no logical difference - but people aren't logical.
Git (and Mercurial and friends) have event hooks that can be used for a variety of automation tasks. For instance, I have a repository that consists of Sphinx documentation for a project. When my webserver's copy of the repo receives new changesets, it updates to tip, builds the HTML and PDF targets, and if successful deploys them into the appropriate web-accessible locations.
Intel has mostly been in competition with itself.

This is more true than you'd think, unless you know how Intel is organized and operated.

When someone from Intel visits your company to discuss future product directions and you sign an NDA, they give you some documents with scary-looking bright yellow "CONFIDENTIAL - DO NOT DUPLICATE" covers.

The thing is, though, they don't much care if you turn the document over to AMD, Samsung, or whoever. They might yell at you or sue you or take you off of their Christmas card list, but they'll get over it. What the program manager is absolutely terrified about is that another manager at Intel will hear about the project and knife it.

Intel is a Darwinian dystopia. When Andy Grove titled his book, "Only the Paranoid Survive," he wasn't joking around or being overdramatic. It's an interesting company, quite unlike any other I've ever heard about.
They didn't fire at all because there was a risk that they might have hit the ISS. SpaceX was operating under NASA's rules and NASA had a safety window where the Falcon 9 could/couldn't fire its second stage.

The risk was almost certainly overstated, but NASA is understandably paranoid about things hitting the ISS.
Haha that is awesome yet also educational
I've no doubt it's a great phone, and those are all good features.

But it's late, it's not shipping today, it's only on one carrier in the USA (odd considering capturing the American premium smartphone market was the whole rationale for 'Burning Platforms'), it's based on an ecosystem that's still a distant third-to-fifth in many metrics, and it's part of a brand that's struggling mightily to mean anything in the minds of customers.

Nokia's late 00's Symbian lineup wasn't necessarily competitive with the premium side of the market, but it was quite competitive in the lower tiers and was still selling like gangbusters in the lower-grade markets. Publicly throwing them all out overnight was an extraordinarily bad move that suffocated Nokia just as they needed cash to compete more than ever before. Their ASPs dropped like a rock, carriers told them to fuck off now that they had a legitimate and thriving alternative (Android 2.x), and the idea of Nokia being a vendor of status phones evaporated overnight. One great phone isn't going to fix their situation.
I think the idea is that if you have a large-ish volume of old stuff--archives from old projects or documents or stuff that you won't need for a while--and it's already in Dropbox, tidy.io lets you offload that stuff into cold storage easily. That frees your dropbox from clutter (and space).

You might also see tidy.io as a nice gateway to Glacier. You don't need to reupload files or use a CLI.

Btw, Dropbox is built on Amazon S3, which has a pretty impressive SLA[1] and service-record. That's not to say that it has perfect uptime, but in general, issues with AWS have been availability issues, rather than durability. Both S3 and Glacier have really good data-durability guarantees(99.999999999%)[2], so I wouldn't worry durability within AWS. With backups, you don't care about availability nearly as much as durability.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/s3-sla/
[2] http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/#highlights
herval, a handful of numbers can't show anything conclusively.

Volume one of Simone de B's epic "Second Sex" covers your points in depth. Worth reading - some of its 1953 English translation is online at : http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir...
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I've already discussed my motivation and justification with you at length. If you feel I'm not contributing, just downvote and move on please. Follow your own advice and flag the article without promoting further discussion.

If you feel this is the wrong topic for HN, you're only fanning the flames by continuing to discuss it with me. I'm also not sure who "we" is. I'm a member of the HN community too, thanks. My account is over 1k days old.

So if you mean "me" then just say so. Don't try to disguise your motivations as those of the community, which incidentally has upvoted this and not flagged it for removal overall.
Can you do US only targeting for Promoted posts?
What insults? Quote one, because I have no idea what you're talking about.

> Thank goodness that someone had the foresight to make a rational argument for civil rights at some point...

How is trying to placate racists "foresight" exactly? Also, which "rational argument for civil rights" got you? I can picture you, all riled up and ready to be a racist...

...then someone tells you a black guy invented x and you have to sit down for a moment and re-think your philosophy on life. Give me a break.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy

Especially with social sciences, there's this thing called "physics envy". In physics, experiments can be repeated consistently in a pristine lab-like environment gather lots of data, to then to prove and disprove stuff, at marginal cost. It's many times impossible to do in other areas of science.

Nobody has yet been able to definitely prove a theorem, but it does not mean that existing hard won lessons today should be ignored until they can be "proved". Startups have to make decisions with incomplete data all the time.
Exactly. Why not take your own advice instead of harassing me in the comments?

If the community feels it needs to be flagged, then it will. I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Hey thanks! You said it a lot better than I did :)
I love this idea...I have a long list of clients who email me occasionally for little updates and enhancements. I should definitely include some kind of retainer arrangement for ongoing maintenance and updates.
Precisely. The OP needs to read his Van Mises.
It makes sense, but it means when they went to make Minecraft Pocket for iOS they had to re-write. Must have been a tough decision to force themselves into another re-write when they inevitably want to bring 0x10c to iOS.
The Golden Circle: How Apple and others successfully communicate
> git is clearly among the softwares, systems (Linux?) and devices (iPhone?) that have "fanboys".

They all do. There are MVS fanboys, VM fanboys, ITS fanboys (oh, yes), Windows fanboys, and so on, and so forth. It isn't the technology, it's the people.
Run your family like a seed accelerator! Have lots and lots of children, with many many (beautiful) women. Spend 3 months (max) with each batch. If anybody succeeds, remind them that you own 75%! Har har har
Why we don't support Internet Explorer (2009)
I took a meditation class at a Buddhist temple. There wasn't any Buddhism taught in the class, only meditation techniques. The advantage in my case was that going to a class where I had to sit for an hour prevented me from procrastinating about practising meditation. That alone was worth it. After a few weeks I went from no meditation experience to being able to sit for 45 minutes at a time, and found many of the proclaimed benefits of meditation come right away.
This story was flagged off the homepage almost as soon as it appeared. I don't see it anywhere in the first five or six pages of results, logged in or logged out.
Isn't it obvious? They're responding to the Hello World.
I learnt a new thing! And will probably never use it until browsers start being picky about it.
I personally was confused by this for a decent amount of time.
Oversimplified, The caller-pays model of telephone compensations was a way to funnel money from richer countries to poorer countries with government-owned telephone monopolies. This fell apart with the internet where the state telecoms had to pay for pipes to western carriers because they had all the desirable content. This situation with the ITU is all about recreating that money flow.
This is exactly The Thing; N9 with MeeGo(more strictly Maemo) has been idolized by everyone, everywhere. Yet, Nokia tried to kill it and in fact still tries to, because it does not sit well with their earlier strategy(Symbian) nor with the current one(Windows Phone).

Nokia was brought down by the internal issues between divisions, Symbian people fought against Maemo/MeeGo people and executives threw plans and requirements around at such pace that whatever got nearly finished had to be scrapped and the whole process began again. Add in other strategy decisions, issues with hardware(LTE not available, no-go for North American market) and fierce competition and it's not really surprising they've gone down at the pace they had.

Well, luckily there are people who still believe on what MeeGo and N9 were built upon...
Maybe we can ask pg to add it in page footer? There has to be some official affiliation for it to gain momentum for any more than the front-page life of this post.
Alan Kay has been giving talks on this for some time. He says there is no equivalent of the arch of civil engineering in software development, which is at the architectural equivalent of the pyramids. Analogies like this are difficult to sustain, but one might argue that civil engineering has a head start over software engineering by a couple thousand years. Others might protest that macros and algorithms have been around at least as long. I think this misses Alan Kay's point that the Empire State Building took 3000 workers 500 or so days to build, and those kinds of coordinated efforts are unheard of in single software engineering projects. One could counter that many large programming incorporate the work of thousands of others in the form of algorithms, techniques and standards, but civil engineering is no different with respect to accumulated wisdom--over a somewhat longer period. Civil engineering does provide for coordinated efforts among thousands of construction workers on a single project.
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Pure genius!
agreed, I think it would be a great addition to the community.. Id volunteer to OP
CYAE has been a dominant force in government for years now.
Hacking ls -l
If you haven't seen it, the PBS documentary Code Rush (1998) is a good (but sometimes cringeworthy) snapshot of that time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Rush
Pure C is a fine choice, too. As is Objective-C. I'm pretty sure Objective-C will outperform Java and C# both. And there's no question that the best choice would be C, for its efficiency and its versatility.
I agree quite a lot with this but I think the main point is that he analyzes financial graphs. I am sure the graphs that bothered Elop were ones that said how many applications were developed for each platform and so on. Nokia had not been doing well in this department, and a smartphone without apps is not an interesting proposition.
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> Also - mailing lists glue it all together - best decision ever.

So Brennan, how did you start your mailing list, and how do you keep it healthy and growing? For example, do you allow your subscribers to post to the list, or is it just a newsletter?

Also, have there ever been times when you've wanted to hold back some secret sauce and not share it because it's just too darn good?
neither is this one? but one has been around for years
My personal hypothesis after seeing a lot of this sort of behavior on advertised pages of mine is that a small but significant portion of Facebook is trained to just click "Like" indiscriminately (or at least, at the barest hint of something worthwhile).
I don't see a reason to go with anything else than the 920. The exclusivity thing is a bummer for US users for sure, but that will be short-lived, if my sources are correct.

I disagree about the lateness. That's dependent on the release of Windows Phone 8 by Microsoft. You may argue that the announcement a month ago was too early, but the counter argument to that is that Nokia is growing mindshare.

I think Nokia's big chance is the apps they're providing. No other manufacturer produces apps as useful as Nokia. We know Maps and Drive will now be available on all WP8 devices, but there's City Lens, free streaming music, Nokia Transport, Nokia Xpress...

Android was never an option for Nokia, given Nokia Maps. As we know from many sources, Symbian was dead in the water, and awesome as it is, the N9 wasn't competitive with iOS and Android (there being even fewer 3rd-party apps today than Windows Phone went live with).

As for one great phone not fixing anything for them? Not sure. It worked for Samsung. Sure, that doesn't mean it'll work for Nokia. But predicting where this goes is like predicting the weather. I've owned every smart phone of Nokia's starting with the 9000 Communicator, and ending with the N900. I'm optimistic.

Elop is playing a long game, and his strategy makes sense to me. The 920 will, by all accounts, be the most innovative device when it's released later this month.
You are so wrong.